UMass Medical School

As healthcare inequities remain a persistent and pressing issue, the identification of ways the healthcare system can make future-focused moves to address them is top-of-mind at Commonwealth Medicine.

Dr. James Ledwith, Family physician and a professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has received the Worcester District Medical Society’s Dr. A. Jane Fitzpatrick Community Service award.

The Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester will lead the newly-created New England Nursing Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy in its mission to increase nursing educators and train more nurses for the region’s workforce.

A psychiatry professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is leading a clinical trial studying the efficacy of a peer intervention program designed to help undergraduate and graduate students with serious mental health conditions.

Major healthcare providers in Massachusetts and across the country have started taking steps to rectify racial discrepancies in healthcare services and outcomes.

The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate Workers Union voted 364 to 15 in favor of unionizing under the United Auto Workers umbrella.

In a 6-4 vote on Wednesday, the Worcester City Council rejected the effort by UMass Chan Medical School to rename the Plantation streets, due to the name’s connection to slavery.

On Sunday, 3,000 people took part in the 24th annual UMass Cancer Walk and Run, raising $700,000 for cancer trials at UMass Chan Medical School, according to a Tuesday press release.

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School are teaming up with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to study the effects of the COVID-19 drug Paxlovid on patients aged 18 and under.

UMass Chan Medical School and a New Haven digital healthcare company are launching a new program to study the ability of virtual care to prevent acute care needs among people with COPD.